Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

A question I often get is how to transform that overall team into a smooth-running machine that will keep up with the pace of market change, and competition in today’s world. Specifying roles is seen by the team as distributing power. Clarify individual roles and required capabilities. Provide resources to implement initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Time will tell.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

See Also An Overview of Lean Business Planning. It starts with a lean business plan. Start with a simple lean business plan: 1. I believe in a lean business plan that summarizes strategy in a few bullet points. That’s a sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow plan. The management magic of business planning.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. Yet some startups such as Biotech don’t have market risk, instead they are dominated by technical risk.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Step 1: Create a Lean Plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. What really constitutes product/market fit? I am no longer writing a book. Finally, really, truly, done. page proofs, and mailing (!)

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

From a young person’s perspective, with tight labour markets, decreasing barriers to entry, low capital-intensive business models and immediate free access to a global market, the appeal is also compelling. Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. The list goes on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Like, if you think your target market is people making above a certain income in south Texas, a list broker may be able to tell you how many people fit that criteria, to give you a sense of how big your target market actually is. Industry suppliers (again to get a sense of demand and for market information). Three years?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. . An accountant with a mind for Strategic Advisory services can help with that, too. .

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It gives your sales, customer service, business development, marketing, HR, and any other teams direct access to shared information with a better way to manage interactions with customers. Enable your marketing team to identify and target your best customers. Who is using CRM? Why is customer relationship management so important?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Ironically, the model is a good fit when launching a new product into an existing , well-defined market where the basis of competition is understood, and its customers are known.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Apr-15: Head of Marketing (growth team). Lean marketing. Jun-15: Community Manager (growth team).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. Target market (intended customers). Marketing and sales plan. Target market.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. That made our first winter in the shop very lean, but we made it through,” he says. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains. The cook and the lawyer.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

My favorite is the Lean Business Plan , a collection of bullet-point lists and tables that lay out strategy, tactics, milestones, and essential numbers. The Lean Business Plan. In its pure form, the Lean Business Plan is simple, just bullet points and lists and tables. For an initial assessment, just do a sales forecast.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. You can finish it up later this week when you dig into the market research. A sales forecast. Startup costs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Filed under: Marketing , Technology , Venture Capital | Tagged: Steve Blank , Venture Capital , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot » 14 Responses Michael F. I now think that was a mistake.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2016

Think of marketing as getting people to know, like, and trust you. In general, a standard business plan includes three parts of the sales and marketing section. In general, a standard business plan includes three parts of the sales and marketing section. Those are the market analysis, the marketing plan, and the sales plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

Not since the ‘lean revolution’ of the 1970s, often dubbed the ‘third industrial revolution’, have such radical changes been made to the way production is designed, monitored and executed, and the repercussions of this sea-change are being felt all the way down the value chain right into the hands of the end-customer. Embracing innovation.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Lara Galloway ( @mombizcoach ) joins the show to discuss niche marketing. Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. What is niche marketing (with Lara Galloway, the @mombizcoach)? Well that’s where the lean planning comes in. Well that’s where the lean planning comes in.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. Unfortunately, the real world is a little more nuanced. Image Source.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

There are now eight software companies north of a $100 billion market cap, representing $2.7 trillion of market value. If we zoom out and look at the overall cloud market, we can see momentum building. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? The momentum of Cloud companies is also seen in the public markets.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Study Reveals Brand Marketers Mostly Clueless And Inept At Localization – [link]. The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help – [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. Which questions can marketers answer with predictive analytics? G2Crowd lists both IBM’s SPSS Statistics and SAS’s Advanced Analytics as market leaders at the enterprise level.

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